Hmm, didn't know that (never tried either):
> ... Virtually all FTP and news servers allows you to open
> multiple connections with the *same* account at the *same* time.
- always thought that if it's prohibited with (POP) mailserversm then
with the rest too. As you sayL
> The same principle also applicable to news and mail servers. Especially
> when the one you use is not local from your ISP. Altough for mail, perhaps
> only limited to certain mail servers (i.e. Qmail), which allows multiple
> open sessions for the same account (currently a RFC violation ;-).
The accent would indeed be on the 'different protocols', to get it
right:
> Traditionally, multitasked email client will allow you to send/receive mails
> while doing anything else with different protocols (i.e. web, ICQ, IRC,
> and/or FTP).
Nevertheless, I'm not too convinced about the need of multitasking in
all circumstances; massive up- and downloads at the same time would be
the more rare situation, and people depending on that probably migrated
long since to multitasking platforms. The DOS "niche" would be the
majority of people who do one thing at at time, and would prefer small,
simple and easy manageable tools - and gear - for that. (I take meself
as an example, <g>. And right they are, seen the horror trips I have
with Linux setups, multitasking or not even that...<bg>)
That "multitasking" has been the standard blurb of those ripoffers who
always declare doing the net with DOS was "impossible". And I dare
suspect that the one most time-, bandwidth- and fee-consuming activity
on the net, web surfing, is the most one-tasking, sequential one too.
Thus, once again it's the browser which is the crucial element: If
this one would be constructed in a way to leave enugh "slots" - so
that for instance offline prepared mail would be sent, or mail/news
downloaded automatically with an online session, without timeouts from
the mailservers - then this could be done thinkably in a traditional
way of sequentially (time-)sharing the unit's activity.
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